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DOCUMENTARY In his fourth film about Jonas Mekas, Peter Sempel accompanies the indie icon over his final years. An associative road movie with well-known guests – and happy birds. Jonas Mekas died in 2019 aged 96. Since the end of the 1980s, Peter Sempel has met the film poet regularly all over the world. Now it’s time to film the final encounters: chez Mekas in Brooklyn, in the fields of Lithuania where he grew up, on a reading tour in Hamburg. On the way, he meets artists for whom Mekas was an inspiration: Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel. In one of the last scenes, Mekas looks up at the sky and says: »Look, the birds are happy«.
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Jonas In The Fields
Documentary Feature
English, German, Lithuanian
Hamburger Filmschau//FF2021
Germany
2021
107 min
OV with German subtitles
Peter Sempel
Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel, Steve Buscemi, Heike Geißler, Lillian Isabella, Phong Bui, Indra Drevinskaitè, Simon de Pury, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Stipe, Holger Steen, John Leland, Andy Lampert, Peter Brötzmann, Vyt Bakaitis and friends…, …horses, cows and happy birds…
Peter Sempel
Peter Sempel
Ralph Thiekötter (Studio Funk)
Peter Sempel, Robert Strauß
Matthias Schuster, Das Institut, Saal 2, Bürgermeister Der Nacht, Peter Brötzmann, Auguste Varkalis, Now We Are Here Band, Jonas, Ziz ...
Frank Hellmann (Optical Art)
Peter Sempel Film&Foto
FFHSH
Peter Sempel: sempel@t-online.de
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AgeingDocumentaryMemoriesExperimentalHumourArt & EssayArtistsBiopicDeath & Loss